The Future is Fusion

The
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is proud to announce that Jason Trelewicz, PhD, has received the prestigious Early
Career Research award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Professor
Trelewicz will receive a total of $750K over five years to develop his project: “Enhancing
the Performance of Plasma-facing Materials Through Solute-stabilized Nanostructured
Tungsten Alloys.”

The Department of Energy Early Career Research Program supports the development of
individual research programs of outstanding scientists in their early careers. To
be eligible, researchers must be untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor
at a U.S. academic institution, and received a PhD within the last 10 years.

“The DOE Early Career award is among the most distinguished honors a faculty scientist
can achieve
,” said Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, President of Stony Brook University. “Professor Trelewicz’s work expands our research portfolio in clean energy technologies
and advances Stony Brook’s contributions for the emergence of fusion as an abundant
source of carbon-free energy and
embodies the big ideas that we apply to the STEM fields here at Stony Brook."

Research topics are required to fall within one of the Office of Science’s six major
program offices: Advanced Scientific Computer Research, Biological and Environmental
Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, or Nuclear
Physics. Awardees are selected from a national pool of university and national laboratory-based
applications, based on peer review from outside scientific experts.

“We are very proud of Jason’s extraordinary honor, as the DOE Early Career Award is
testament to his marvelous professional trajectory,” said
Michael A. Bernstein, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Stony
Brook University
. “We look forward to the critical contributions that Jason will make in sustainable
energy research.

“Professor Trelewicz’s break-through research into alternative energy embodies our
core mission to develop sustainable, transformative solutions that are relevant to
today’s global challenges,” said Fotis Sotiropoulos, Dean of the College of Engineering
and Applied Sciences.

Professor Trelewicz received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2008
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining Stony Brook in 2012,
Trelewicz spent four years as Research Director at MesoScribe Technologies, Inc.,
where he
managed technology development and transition with a focus on harsh environment sensors
produced by additive manufacturing processes. Today,
his research focuses on the design, synthesis, stability, and performance of interface engineered alloys through
coupled simulations and experiments
. Trelewicz is a recipient of the 2016 NSF Career Award and the 2015 TMS Young Leader
Professional Development Award.